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those are only the grafts i was able to collect, im sure i prolly lost many more

Last night, 5 days after my hair transplant, I began to scratch my head during my sleep. By the time that I was concious of it, I realized that I scratched off alot of scabs. I am really worried that I removed alot of grafts, as I heard that it takes approx 10 days for them to be secure. Fortunately, I dont thinking there was any bleeding. Attached are some pictures of some of the reminents. Please let me know if you think these are grafts, thanks.

Last night, 5 days after my hair transplant, I began to scratch my head during my sleep. By the time that I was concious of it, I realized that I scratched off alot of scabs. I am really worried that I removed alot of grafts, as I heard that it takes approx 10 days for them to be secure. Fortunately, I dont thinking there was any bleeding. Attached are some pictures of some of the reminents. Please let me know if you think these are grafts, thanks.

Hi Dakota, I guess one cannot guarantee that I will not reach a norwood 7, however, considering that I am a diffuse thinner, my balding pattern seems to be pretty evident. I dont see any miniturization in leading me to conclude that a norwood 7 would be unlikely. Let just say that i dont have 10,000 available grafts , maybe 6000-7000 (the average amount). That would atleast frame my face, give me coverage on the top and maybe an appearence of a thinning crown. Which would be somewhat ok for me when I am much older. At least I will be able to enjoy my 20's and prolly most of 30's with the donor hair I got (I will be on propecia and minox). In addition I could used BHT to help with coverage. And this is not taking into consideration that at least in 10-20 yrs we might make major breakthorughs in hair restoration.

Hi ReadyForChange: I dont want to disclose my doc just yet, as nobody has responded to the quality of work done on me. The only reason I mention the research is that I feel that by the time I need to deplete all my donor hair to keep up with the progression of my hairloss, especially after the use of propecia, minoxidil, etc., I believe that there will be a legitamate breakthrough in the techniques available for hair restoration. As for the laser comb, I have read threads on the laser comb, some positive and many stating no results. In my stage of hair loss maintainance is key, even the analysis of the studies showed by the highly esteemed doctors on the forum, and the clinical studies themselves show that hair was pretty much maintained if not gained. Lasers have been used medically to accelarate healing. So Im thinking if worse comes to worse it should help me heal from the hair transplant quicker and maybe even spur early hair growth of the transplanted hair. Nevertheless, I have a guarantee that if I dont feel that it works for me in 6 months then I can get a FULL refund. So for me there is nothing to lose. My pre-op pics may depict the hair loss worse than it actually looks because I think I used flash for them. I have a little worse than a 3V. So 2600 grafts seemed like enough to provide pretty decent coverage (any DOCTORs on this site wanna give their insight?) and give me a hairline that is 50 grafts per cm^2. I also am pretty optimistic that the propecia/mino combo will help me improve my crown and mid top region. I wanna be able to go atleast 4 yrs before getting another procedure done. If propecia and mino dont help enough I can use concelers as well for that region. Concelers have worked well for me thus far, believe it or not its hard to tell that Im balding with it on. With the transplant I should atleast have a nice hairline.

I put a lot of thought and research into deciding whether or not to get a transplant. I have consulted multiple hair restoration docs and they have all come to the consensus that I would be a norwood 6 max. If you take a look at my donor area you should realized that it is nice and thick. According to my surgeon I should be able to pull out at least 10,000 grafts, and I dont think he was adding the extras I can pull out using FUE. Consdering my head size measurements that should be more than enough to cover my head entirely. I have also started propecia, minoxidil and will start the laser comb. So that should at least slow down if not improve my hair loss problem. Also, if worse comes to worse, I have an adequate supply of body hair if needed. All this is not even including the rapid advancements occuring in the hair loss industry(hair multiplication, folica studies, etc..). As long as I can maintain or slow down my hair loss, I shouldnt even have to worry about depleting my donor supply. I consider myself to be a fairly self concious person, so shaving my head is not an option. Being completely bald my be a good option for some, but not for me. Any other comments or crticisms are much appreciated, especially for some of the more knowlegeble people/docs on this forum.

Just added a real clear pic, hope that helps. Had to crop it down significantly to fit 500kb limit. My surgery was conducted on 1/16

I posted the the dates on the pics, all the pre-ops are on 1/15/09, the post ops are either 1/16 or 1/17, I have been trying to take clearer pics of post ops- but i got to figure out how to fix that on my camera. Im new to this forum so Im trying to figure out how to add more pics to the same gallery. Also my hair blocks alot of the transplant of the top and crown area ( I dont want to move my hair around to much yet so I dont mess up the grafts)so I am just posting the front and side pics. As for the transplant sugeon- I dont want to disclose the name just yet -because I feel that the comments might be biased.

Im a 21 yr old- norwood 3V-4ish (because Im a diffuse thinner). Just got 2600 grafts throughout my thinning scalp (approx 400 grafts to the crown. As you can see I also reconstructed a new hairline. I measure my new hair line to be about 5.5 cm from top of eye brow to about 7 cm from bridge of nose. Attached are my pre op pics and post op pics. Note: the post op pics look thinner because I had surgical lube in my hair (didnt shave it for the procedure)- Please comment about the pics and what you think about the new hair line placement

Im a 21 yr old- norwood 3V-4ish (because Im a diffuse thinner). Just got 2600 grafts throughout my thinning scalp (approx 400 grafts to the crown. As you can see I also reconstructed a new hairline. I measure my new hair line to be about 5.5 cm from top of eye brow to about 7 cm from bridge of nose. Attached are my pre op pics and post op pics. Note: the post op pics look thinner because I had surgical lube in my hair (didnt shave it for the procedure)- Please comment about the pics and what you think about the new hair line placement